A federal judge has ruled that the state of Kentucky must pay $1.1 million to the attorneys who represented the plaintiffs who successfully challenged the state’s gay marriage ban last year. ABC News reports that in 2014, U.S. District Judge John Heyburn ruled the state’s ban on gay marriage unconstitutional. Attorney General Jack Conway refused…
Kim Davis, the Kentucky county clerk who was jailed for refusing to give marriage licenses to same-sex couples, walked free today after five days behind bars. District Judge David Bunning ordered the release of Davis from federal custody and ordered her not to “interfere in any way, directly or indirectly, with the efforts of her…
Today, HRC President Chad Griffin appeared on MSNBC to discuss the ongoing situation in Rowan County, Ky., where County Clerk Kim Davis continues to flout the law by denying marriage licenses to couples. “With the results of the United States Supreme Court decision in the Obergefell case, marriage licenses must be issued equally. That’s her…
Despite a ruling from a federal judge that requires a Kentucky county clerk to process marriage licenses for all couples, this morning Kentucky county clerk Kim Davis violated that order by refusing to process a same-sex marriage license. Zack Ford writes on Think Progress Davis refused to have her name on same-sex couples’ marriage licenses…
The number of marriages in the state of Utah have broken all records since a federal judge overturned Utah’s ban on same-sex marriage a week ago. According to a report in The Salt Lake Tribune, as of close of business Thursday, more than 1,225 marriage licenses had been issued in Utah since last Friday and…
NEW YORK CITY — Last Thursday’s court action halting the granting of marriage licenses to same-sex couples in Montgomery County, PA, underscores a complex and potentially expensive tax scenario for legally married same-sex couples in states where same-sex marriage is not recognized, according to David H. Glusman, CPA, partner-in-charge of the Philadelphia office of Marcum LLP and…
